What do you mean? He gave up a weak infield single that should have been an out to the shortstop and then the next guy hit a single to drive him in. Not sure what settling down has to do with it. To be fair, not throwing a dirtball would have given Soto a pretty good chance to gun Bay out.
"Mental midget" seems like a bit much for one of our best starters last season. Partially tongue in cheek for all the times that name was used on him last year.
Maybe 7 years from now Rich can come back as a big-time slugging outfielder. Oh, never mind, we're not the Cardinals, that kind of thing doesn't happen here. At least now he's thrown a couple strikes.